Neu!
by Neu!

Neu! by Neu!
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 869th   
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 479 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1972 (18th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (184th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (869th)

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Neu! track list

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Neu! rankings

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Overall rank: 869th | 1970s rank: 184th | 1972 rank: 18th

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Neu! ratings

Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 479 votes)
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09/06/2025 20:04 melisandre   15188/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.6/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.

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85/100
From 04/21/2025 12:06 | #308663
Fuck Kraftwerk, this offshoot is the better product of 70s krautrock. Perfect focus music, perfect driving music, just a varied, weird, delightful album.
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60/100
From 02/02/2022 15:40 | #280471
Hallogallo is great and I quite like Weissensee but the rest is meaningless noise or otherwise good melodies covered with noise. The last track is extremely uncomfortable for me to listen.
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70/100
From 08/03/2021 12:35 | #272188
ambient instrumental sparse very soothing with a mix of punk krautrock
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75/100
From 06/30/2021 18:04 | #271188
Neu! is enchanting and at a lot of the times throughout the album it is beautiful. This is highlighted on the likes of Hallogallo, Weissensee and Negativland, all of which are so delicately composed and a pure joy to listen too. However, there is definitely an argument for some of the tracks to be filler content and not essential to the album such as the closing track which seems a bit out of place. Overall the album is a masterclass of Krautrock and a pleasure to listen too.
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85/100
From 06/20/2020 01:21 | #253958
Much like every other krautrock album ever made, Neu! is very hypnotic. It's very impressive how much bands like Neu! are able to do with what little they allow themselves. It's music to listen to in pretty much any situation I can think of myself in. I can’t help but think it must be very boring to be the drummer in this band.
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60/100
From 01/06/2018 01:47 | #204672
Neu starts out with an enjoyable acoustic track but then becomes only white noise.
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60/100
From 07/06/2016 20:27 | #170713
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85/100
From 04/02/2016 23:19 | #163186
An experimental album that jives with me.
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From 02/15/2016 15:31 | #159803
I suppose I just don't "get it".
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85/100
From 05/20/2015 05:02 | #142013
Just really pleasing sonically to me, especially Hallogallo.
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